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Revise & Resubmit

  1. Medical Innovation and Health Disparities (with Barton Hamilton, Andrés Hincapié and Emma Kalish). Revision requested at Review of Economic Dynamics. [pdf]
  2. Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics and Wealth Accumulation over the Lifecycle (with Daniel Barth, Kevin Thom and Mateo Velásquez-Giraldo). Revision requested at American Economic Journal – Macroeconomics. [pdf]
  3. Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why? (with Erica Chenoweth, Barton H. Hamilton, Hedwig Lee, Stephen P. Roll and Matthew V. Zahn). Revision requested at American Journal of Sociology. [pdf] (NBER working paper w29987)
  4. The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market (with Victor Ronda and Yu Zheng). Revision requested at International Economic Review. [pdf] [Appendix]

Submitted

  1. Using Qualitative Data to Inform Structural Modeling: An Application to Post-Secondary Education Investments (with Stefanie DeLuca, Joseph Boselovic, Seth Gershenson, Andrew Gray, and Jasmine Sausedo). [pdf] (NBER working paper w29472)
  2. Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Long-Run Planning (with Yeongmi Jeong, Meghan M. Skira and Kevin Thom). [pdf]

In Progress

  1. On-the-Job Learning: How Peers and Experience Drive Productivity among Teachers(with Seth Gershenson, Constance A. Lindsay, Romaine Campbell and Jessica H. Rendone). [pdf] (IZA discussion paper 16258)
  2. No Calm Before the Storm: Economic Losses Prior to Dementia Diagnoses among Working-Age Colombians (with Leonardo Bonilla Mejía, María Jose Otero Aranga, and María Fernanda Henao Pineda). [pdf]
  3. Healthcare Plans and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from Bankruptcy-Induced Random Assignment in Colombia (with Leonardo Bonilla, Manuela Cardona, Christian Posso and Matthew Zahn). [pdf]
  4. Using Subjective Beliefs Data to Characterize Heterogeneity: A Machine Learning Approach (with Daniel Barth, Prerna Rakheja, Kevin Thom and Mateo Velásquez). Draft available upon request.
  5. Sub-Baccalaureate Swirling: Understanding Timing, Trajectories, and Degree Completion for Community College Students (with Stefanie DeLuca, Sarah Sullivan and Jacqueline Groccia)

In Press / Forthcoming / Published Journal Articles:

  1. Modeling Dynamic Disease-Behavior Feedbacks for Improved Epidemic Prediction and Response (with Hongru Du, Matthew Zahn, Sara Loo, Tijs Alleman, Shaun Truelove, Bryan Patenaude, Lauren Gardner and Alison Hill). Forthcoming at PLOS Computation Biology.[link]
  2. Ethics and Potential Opportunities and Risks of Corporate Uses of Socioeconomic Polygenic Risk Scores (with Michelle Meyer, Erik Parens, Alan Regenberg, Jeremy Sugarman and Kevin Thom). The American Journal of Human Genetics. [pdf]
  3. What Good Are Treatment Effects without Treatment? Mental Health and the Reluctance to Use Talk Therapy (with Christopher J. Cronin and Matthew Forsstrom). Review of Economic Studies -Featured Article. [pdf] (NBER working paper 27711)
  4. Rational Self-Medication (with Michael Darden). Forthcoming at Economics and Human Biology. [pdf] (NBER working paper 25371).
  5. Exploring the Tradeoff between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events among Disadvantaged Black Youth (with Stefanie DeLuca and Joseph Boselovic). Forthcoming at RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. [pdf]
  6. Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together (with Michael Darden, David Dowdy, Lauren Gardner, Barton H. Hamilton, Karen Kopecky, Melissa Marx, Daniel Polsky, Kimberly Powers, Elizabeth Stuart and Matthew Zahn). Health Economics (Perspectives). [pdf]
  7. The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers (with Joshua Hyman, Seth Gershenson, Cassandra M. D. Hart and Constance A. Lindsay). American Economic Journal – Economic Policy. [pdf] (NBER working paper w25254 and IZA Discussion Paper No. 10630)
  8. Modeling Behavior during a Pandemic Using HIV as an Historical Analogy. Econometric Society Monograph Series. [pdf]
  9. Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence (with Gwyn Pauley, Mardge Cohen, Tracey Wilson, Barton Hamilton and Robert Pollak). Journal of Human Resources. [pdf] [Appendix] (NBER working paper w22887)
  10. Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment (with Barton Hamilton, Andres Hincapie and Robert Miller). International Economic Review. [pdf] [Animated Appendix] (NBER working paper w24577)
  11. Unequal Consequences of Covid 19: Representative Evidence from Six Countries (with Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg and Julian Jamison). Review of Economics of the Household. [pdf]
  12. Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic (with Matthew V. Zahn, Michèle Belot, Eline van den Broek-Altenberg, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison and Egon Tripodi). Journal of Population Economics. [pdf] (NBER working paper w27378)
  13. Teacher Expectations Matter (with Seth Gershenson and Kyungmin Kang). Review of Economics and Statistics. [pdf] [Appendix] (NBER working paper w25255)
  14. Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality (with Daniel Barth and Kevin Thom). Journal of Political Economy. [pdf] (NBER working paper w24642)
  15. Genes, Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (with Kevin Thom). Journal of the European Economic Association. [pdf] (NBER working paper w25114)
  16. The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship (with Barton Hamilton and Nidhi Pande). Quantitative Economics. [Published Version] (NBER working paper w25006)
  17. We Should Totally Open a Restaurant: How Optimism and Overconfidence Affect Beliefs (with Stephanie A. Heger). Journal of Economic Psychology. [pdf] [Appendix] [Published Version]
  18. Entertaining Malthus: Bread, Circuses and Economic Growth (with Lemin Wu, Rohan Dutta and David Levine). Economic Inquiry. [pdf] [Published Version]
  19. Why Medical Innovation is Valuable: Health, Human Capital and the Labor Market. Quantitative Economics. (Lead Article). [Published version]
  20. Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations (with Seth Gershenson and Stephen B. Holt). Economics of Education Review. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 9202] [Published version]
  21. Health, Risky Behavior and the Value of Medical Innovation for Infectious Disease (with Tat Chan and Barton Hamilton). Review of Economic Studies. [pdf] [Published version]

Other Publications, Non-Technical Summaries and Blog Posts

  1. The Power of Teacher Expectations: How Racial Bias Hinders Student Attainment (with Seth Gershenson). Education Next. [Link]
  2. Medical Innovation and the Labor Market: The Importance of Reducing Side Effects. Microeconomic Insights. [Link]
  3. Six-Country Survey on Covid-19 (with Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison, Egon Tripodi and Eline van den Broek-Altenberg). Covid Economics [link (paper) ] [link (data)]
  4. Brookings Blog Posts
    1. Do Teacher Expectations Matter? (with Seth Gershenson). [Link]
    2. What Genetic Information Can Tell Us about Economic Inequality (with Kevin Thom). [Link]
    3. The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: How Misbehavior in School Pays Off for some Kids. [Link]
    4. Don’t Grade Schools on Character Skills. [Link]
  5. Covid-Related JHU Blog Posts
    1. The Unequal Costs of Social Distancing (with Emma Kalish and Stefanie DeLuca) [link]
    2. Economists and Epidemiologists: Not at Odds, but in Agreement [link]
  6. VOX EU
    1. Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence [Link]
    2. The Long-Run Effects of Same-Race Teachers [Link]